battologize
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Verb[edit]
battologize (third-person singular simple present battologizes, present participle battologizing, simple past and past participle battologized)
- To keep repeating needlessly; to iterate.
- 1634, T[homas] H[erbert], A Relation of Some Yeares Travaile, Begunne Anno 1626. into Afrique and the Greater Asia, […], London: […] William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome, →OCLC:
- after they have battologized Lla y-lala, or Hilula, i.e. Praises, they iterate another to this effect
References[edit]
“battologize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.